By Chris Dunlavy
BIG INTERVIEW:LEE JOHNSON

BIG INTERVIEW: LEE JOHNSON

THINKER: Lee Johnson is alert to the ideas of managers like Wolves’ Nuno Espirito Santo

and Reading’s

Jaap Stam
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MANAGERS beware. Lee Johnson is a coldblooded thief – and the Bristol City boss is happy to admit it.
Tactics, movement, shapes and systems. From his vantage point on the Ashton Gate touchline, the former Robins midfielder is more like a magpie, swiping anything shiny and new.
“Maybe I’m just a geek,” says the 36-year-old. “But, with a...